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This was very daring, and at the same time very logical. But the "Albatross" began to rise after her. Although she was smaller than the "Go-Ahead," it was a case of the swordfish and the whale. This could easily be seen from below and with what anxiety! In a few moments the aerostat had attained a height of sixteen thousand feet. The "Albatross" followed her as she rose.
He had lived too long with our go-ahead brethren who stride the world on the other side the Atlantic with the seven-leagued boots of the Giant-killer, not to have caught their glorious fever for reading. But it was for a reading wholly different from that which was familiar to Leonard. The books he read must be new; to read old books would have seemed to him going back in the world.
We watched the growth of the University of Michigan from its infancy, and rejoiced when Chancellor Tappan took it in hand and gave it an impetus which changed its status from an academy to a vigorous go-ahead college, with wonderful possibilities. He was a grand man.
Outside they were met by Don Alonso, the foreman, a very smart and go-ahead fellow indeed, considering that he was a Spaniard. "They'll strike, señores!" said Don Alonso, with a shrug. "It can't be helped, I'm afraid. It's all Domecq's doing, the scoundrel! Why didn't you dismiss him, Don Alfredo, after that affair of Moreno's death?
Mr. Pierce understands this policy. That which is popular and holds out advantages must go down in our go-ahead country. According to the axiom of our Southern doctrines we must have Cuba: she must be wedded in political bonds to Cape Florida; not for the purpose of consolidating niggerdom, but merely to complete in that direction the point of manifest destiny.
But it seemed as though the "Go-Ahead" had sighted this strange object. Assuredly it seemed as though she feared some danger, for her speed was increased, and she was going east as fast as she could. Yes, the crowd saw what it meant! A name uttered by one of the members of the Weldon Institute was repeated by a hundred thousand mouths: "The "Albatross!" The "Albatross!""
His going through college won't hurt him, he'll soon slough all that off, and his bringing up won't; don't be anxious about it. I noticed in the army that some of the fellows that had the most go-ahead were fellows that hadn't ever had much more to do than girls before the war broke out. Your son will get along."
The "Go-Ahead" went up in a perfectly vertical line a proof of the calmness of the atmosphere and stopped at an altitude of eight hundred feet. Then she began her horizontal maneuvering. With her screws going she moved to the east at a speed of twelve yards a second.
'Cape Cod is the place from whence all persons come who profess to be born free and equal; but they are a scrubby set Considering it a duty I owed to the nation, I again interrupted him. 'Cape Cod, replied I, 'has got gumption, principle, and the spirit of a go-ahead in her: she germinated the Young American party. John Bull's waters, so much the better. He is no stranger to Mr.
But the aeronef, slowing her suspensory screws, came down just as fast. She ran alongside the "Go-Ahead" when she was not more than four thousand feet from the ground. Would Robur destroy her? No; he was going to save her crew! And so cleverly did he handle his vessel that the aeronaut jumped on board. Would Uncle Prudent and Phil Evans refuse to be saved by him?
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